Blog: angels twenty

[review 2008: favourites] The Kills have always been on the periphery of my musical universe. With the occasional review saying "sounds like PJ Harvey but grungier!" and "way cooler than the White Stripes," there was at least a pleasant-sounding buzz around the band's first two albums. But I couldn't quite take seriously a band whose members wanted to be called VV and Hotel in interviews, and to be honest I'm not one for the hard-living, drink-and-fight stereotype Alison Mossheart and Jamie Hince seem to embody. In short, I wasn't really buying it. Well, I'm [...]